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Sudanese protest leaders canceled planned talks with the country's ruling generals Tuesday as hundreds of schoolchildren demonstrated in Khartoum against the shooting of five pupils at a rally.

The killings came a day before protest leaders were due to hold talks with generals on the remaining aspects of installing civilian rule after the two sides inked a power-sharing deal earlier this month.

But three protest leaders said the dialogue would not take place as planned.

Doctors linked to the protest movement say that more than 250 people have been killed nationwide in protest-related violence since December when demonstrations first erupted against now ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

Protest leaders have rejected the findings of a joint investigation by prosecutors and the ruling military council that concluded that just 17 people were killed on June 3, with a total of 87 deaths between that day and June 10 .